From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 5 19:08:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EAD106564A; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tdb@carrick.bishnet.net) Received: from carrick.bishnet.net (carrick.bishnet.net [IPv6:2a01:348:132:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6C18FC15; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from carrick-users.bishnet.net ([2a01:348:132:51::10]) by carrick.bishnet.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1T9KyD-0004NW-Cx; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:09:01 +0100 Received: (from tdb@localhost) by carrick-users.bishnet.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q85J91fH016833; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:09:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from tdb) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:09:01 +0100 From: Tim Bishop To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Message-ID: <20120905190901.GK66364@carrick-users.bishnet.net> References: <20120905112013.2d44783c@laptop> <09CB99A0-75BC-426C-BD44-9ACC7CD741D1@exonetric.com> <20551.35538.119912.329917@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: 0x5AE7D984, http://www.bishnet.net/tim/tim-bishnet-net.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1453 086E 9376 1A50 ECF6 AE05 7DCE D659 5AE7 D984 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: hubs@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman , Cluster Administrators Subject: Re: pkgng mirrors X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:08:17 -0000 On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 06:35:48PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > ... we need it, especially if run well (though the majority of mirrors > sadly aren't run well); ... I run mirrorservice.org so I've interacted with quite a few open source projects that have their stuff mirrored by third parties. The FreeBSD system seems fairly primitive compared to others; whilst you have various things to check the status of the mirrors there's nothing (as far as I know) automatically happening with it. Other projects have systems to automatically remove mirrors from listings if they're not updating properly or are missing content. If FreeBSD was to do something similar you'd be able to retain a well established mirror network whilst effectively weeding out broken sites. That said, 10TB worth of packages? That's a lot and I can imagine most mirrors couldn't handle that quantity of data. Tim. -- Tim Bishop http://www.bishnet.net/tim/ PGP Key: 0x5AE7D984